The New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres face off Sunday afternoon, wrapping up their season series with a game that could impact the Eastern Conference playoff race. The Devils (3-1-0 in their last four) are coming off one of their best performances of the season, a 5-0 shutout victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night. New Jersey dominated the second period, with Ondrej Palat, Luke Hughes, Nathan Bastian, and Dawson Mercer all finding the net. It was the team’s most lopsided win since Dec. 23, when they beat the New York Rangers by the same score. “This is more like the team that we know we can be and how we’re going to win a lot more games,” said

The Seton Hall Pirates and DePaul Blue Demons meet in Chicago on Sunday, both hoping to end their losing ways in a critical Big East Conference matchup. The Pirates (6-15, 1-9 Big East) are in free fall, losing six straight games, including a 69-67 heartbreak to Providence on Tuesday. Despite rallying from a 15-point second-half deficit, Seton Hall fell short once again in a one-possession game, marking their fifth such loss this season. Coach Shaheen Holloway described the locker room as “super down” after the game, but he wants that pain to fuel his team. “I told them it should sting, it should hurt, because that shows you care,” Holloway said. “I wanna cry every freakin’ game.” Seton Hall desperately

The Utah Hockey Club and St. Louis Blues are both desperate for a win as they prepare to square off Sunday at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City. Utah has lost four straight (0-2-2) and has let late leads slip away in back-to-back overtime losses—falling 3-2 to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday and again to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday. In both games, Utah held a 2-1 lead in the third period but failed to close things out. “It’s frustrating, for sure,” said Clayton Keller, Utah’s leading scorer with 56 points (18 goals, 38 assists) and a recent hot streak of four goals and 11 assists in his last nine games. “We’ve got to keep going, learn from

Despite a rash of injuries, the Dallas Stars keep rolling. But their five-game win streak is on the line as they host a surging Columbus Blue Jackets squad looking for its fourth straight win. The Stars have been 14-4-1 since Dec. 23, placing them among the Western Conference’s elite. That success has come despite injuries to:✅ Tyler Seguin (hip)✅ Mason Marchment (face)✅ Miro Heiskanen (knee)✅ Nils Lundkvist (shoulder – out for season) Even with a depleted lineup, Dallas continues to find ways to win. On Friday, Jason Robertson and Roope Hintz each delivered two goals and an assist in a 5-3 win over Vancouver. The Stars were outshot 35-16, but capitalized on their opportunities. “You’ve got to win all kinds